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Final Cut Pro- Frequent Timecode Breaks on Capture
I’m capturing about twenty hours of footage for an arts council, and all of the tapes appear to be damaged to a certain degree, so timecode breaks are frequent.
I’ve taken what I know to be the steps for timecode breaks, switching the capture settings from “abort” to “warn after capture”, but when I capture (both batch, clip and now), Final Cut hangs up at the first timecode break.
I rearranged the time of the clip to be past that section, but at the next timecode break it does the same thing, and so on and so forth.
Anyone know a solution to this problem?
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7 Replies
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Please tell us what tape format/codec and how you are set up to capture.
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I’m capturing DV tapes from a Sony DVCAM deck, through firewire, the capture/input at DV NTSC 48 kHz.
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Is it a problem of having a long pre roll that backs over the break? In logging where the code breaks are, you need to allow for the pre roll.
In the device control settings you can shorten the pre roll. 3 seconds should be plenty for DV. Try 2. But you must allow for the tape to roll back that far prior to capture so if it rolls back over a code break it will not be able to locate and so it hangs.
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I hadn’t taken that into consideration, I’ll adjust those settings and try again.
Thanks!
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I bet they shot with time of day timecode. TOD makes a TC break every time you stop and start the camera.
The only thing I can suggest is to log each clip around the camera starts & stops.
Arnie
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On some of the tapes, the timecode breaks every couple of seconds or, at its worst, every few frames; so, it clearly is something more than camera starts and stops. I suspect the camera they used hasn’t been cleaned in awhile.
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Twenty hours of footage is a lot, but if you have a second deck or camera you might consider dubbing all the footage to new tapes. Make the dub using a firewire cable between the two decks. The dubs will have continuous time code.
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